exotic (egzotik)

and n. [Formerly also ex otick; = F. exotique = Sp. exótico = Pg. exotico = It. esotico (cf. G. exotisch = Dan. Sw.exotisk ), Your pedant should provide you some parcels of French, or some pretty commodity of Italian, to commence with, if you would be exotic and exquisite. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 3. ba ador. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the [Ru ian] amEvelyn, Diary, Nov. 24, 1681. I suppose a writer may be allowed to use exotic terms, when custom has not only denizened them, but brought them into request. Boyle , Considerations touching Experimental E ays. Birds, Fishes, Beasts of each exotic Kind I to the Limits of my Court conf in'd. Prior, Solomon, ii. I know not whether ever operas can be kept up in England; they seem to be entirely exotic . Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 8. II. n. Anything of foreign origin, as a plant, tree, word, practice, etc., introduced from a foreign country, and not fully acclimated, naturalized, or established in use. Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection. Macaulay, Milton.